[SOLVED] Trying to get Intel AX200 Wifi Card to work in Debian 11.

linustalman · 12-09-2021, 01:30 AM

Hi.

It's got 2 antennas at the back of my PC. I installed the firmware-iwlwifi package. My home wireless network is detected. It tries to connect but eventually times out.

Other info I have on it: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 (wlp6s0).

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

pan64 · 12-09-2021, 03:54 AM

did you check this page? https://www.intel.com/content/www/us.../wireless.html

linustalman · 12-09-2021, 07:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pan64

did you check this page? https://www.intel.com/content/www/us.../wireless.html

Hi pan64. I already have one of those files - I presume it was installed with the firmware-iwlwifi package. So I'd be best overwrite it?

pan64 · 12-09-2021, 07:19 AM

no, I guess that was not installed with firmware-iwlwifi.

linustalman · 12-09-2021, 08:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pan64

no, I guess that was not installed with firmware-iwlwifi.

I extracted the https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/_me...3cfab8da.0.tgz file and the iwlwifi-cc-a0-46.ucode file is dated 20-6-2019 in my file manager.

linustalman · 12-09-2021, 11:27 AM

Code:

lspci -v

gives this:

Code:

06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200 (rev 1a)
	Subsystem: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 29, IOMMU group 15
	Memory at fcc00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
	Kernel modules: iwlwifi

linustalman · 12-09-2021, 11:30 AM

Code:

lsmod | grep iwlwifi

Code:

iwlwifi 311296 1 iwlmvm

linustalman · 12-09-2021, 11:31 AM

Maybe a clue here?

Code:

sudo dmesg | grep iwl

Code:

              
[   14.356697] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[   14.357625] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-cc-a0-64.ucode (-2)
[   14.357628] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-cc-a0-64.ucode failed with error -2
[   14.359953] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-cc-a0-63.ucode (-2)
[   14.359955] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-cc-a0-63.ucode failed with error -2
[   14.364292] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware iwlwifi-cc-a0-62.ucode
[   14.364297] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: api flags index 2 larger than supported by driver
[   14.364306] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION: FSEQ Version: 89.3.35.37
[   14.364513] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: loaded firmware version 62.49eeb572.0 cc-a0-62.ucode op_mode iwlmvm
[   14.364527] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: firmware: failed to load iwl-debug-yoyo.bin (-2)
[   14.444765] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX200 160MHz, REV=0x340
[   14.568118] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: Detected RF HR B3, rfid=0x10a100
[   14.633537] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: base HW address: 48:XX:XX:XX:XX:b7
[   14.648978] iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0 wlp6s0: renamed from wlan0

Timothy Miller · 12-09-2021, 06:33 PM

Did you copy over the newer firmware from Intel's site? You shouldn't have -64.ucodes yet in 11...

linustalman · 12-10-2021, 08:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Timothy Miller

Did you copy over the newer firmware from Intel's site? You shouldn't have -64.ucodes yet in 11...

Hi Tim. I didn't copy it over. Please see https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...1/#post6307990.

pan64 · 12-10-2021, 08:21 AM

so the zipfile contains iwlwifi-cc-a0-46.ucode. I guess you must use this one. In your dmesg you can see different files, another firmware was loaded.

linustalman · 12-10-2021, 08:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pan64

so the zipfile contains iwlwifi-cc-a0-46.ucode. I guess you must use this one. In your dmesg you can see different files, another firmware was loaded.

It looks like the zip files iwlwifi-cc-a0-46.ucode is older than the iwlwifi-cc-a0-46.ucode that came with the Debian firmware-iwlwifi package.

pan64 · 12-10-2021, 09:14 AM

anyway, I would try that (if you have no better idea)

linustalman · 12-18-2021, 09:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pan64

anyway, I would try that (if you have no better idea)

I added the iwlwifi-cc-a0-46.ucode file from https://www.intel.com/content/www/us.../wireless.html to /lib/firmware and rebooted.

It's still the same - it tries to connect but never does.

Timothy Miller · 12-18-2021, 12:36 PM

I'd say start from scratch with firmware.

Code:

apt purge firmware-iwlwifi
find /lib/firmware/ -name 'iwlwifi-*' -exec rm -f {} \;
apt install firmware-iwlwifi
*reboot

This SHOULD work if you're using the Debian kernel, I have multiple laptops running Debian Bullseye with AX200 cards and not a single one of them required the firmware from Intel (will not work if it's actually an AX210, the Debian 5.10 kernel simply doesn't work properly with that card, requires the backport kernel to fully function).